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The following day brings drizzle and grief. You are saddened by the loss of a potential weapon against the Blakekin, but heartened that there may be another opportunity to exact revenge.
During the morning, each of you passes by the boiler room door, lingering momentarily as reminders of yesterday flood into your mind. You continue on. Other students feel the almost palpable sense of evil coming from the boiler room, and do not approach the door.
As third period ends, you leave your respective classes and are drawn to the boiler room door, almost magnetically. As you begin to look in each other’s eyes, one of you perks your head up and scours the air, sniffing several times.
What is that smell? And where is Wayne, your star quarterback?
After a few seconds, revelation seems to hit you all simultaneously. That’s the same smell of death that Richard had yesterday and Kristy the day before. It is the smell of death ash.
You tear into the room, and the only part of Wayne you can still see is one of his hands sticking out of the boiler, with the bathroom pass still in his hand from when he left Ms. Dawson’s third period math class to use the facilities.
The experience dominates the rest of your day, and you do not meet up again, instead avoiding each other all day long.
Chapter Two has ended, Chapter Three has begun. It will end at 9:00 pm Tuesday EST.
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